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  • IPA(key): /e.kaʁ.ki.je/
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écarquiller

  1. to open wide, to goggle
    • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
      [] et sous sa frimousse qui s’arrondit, à travers ses yeux émus de môme qu’il écarquille sans s’en rendre compte, quelque chose de scellé – d’enfoui profond, si profond…
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